Ionic bonding gcse i thought it was supposed to be the other way around? group 1 and 2 are harder to remove electrons since there are less shells so it’s closer to the nucleus so there’s more attraction and opposite for group 7 and 6?

Group I and Group II have the same number of outermost electrons as you go down each group but the shells increase therefore as you go downward it becomes much easier to remove electrons because of its wide radius however group 7 and 6 have seven and six electrons in their outermost shell respectively. Therefore down the group it is much easier to attract electrons and across the period it is much harder because the number of electrons on the outermost shell increase